About the Course DCIS Arts Inquiry I-VIII is a single semester individually-directed arts course that can be taken up to eight times during a student's high school career. It carries 5 Fine Arts elective credits towards graduation. Students choose an art form, craft a plan of study that meets state standards in their art form and the Global Performance System's Arts Framework proficiencies. They then select aesthetic questions to pursue, design research, a mini-internship with a practicing artist, and exercises that will help them achieve their goals. They plan to share and collaborate in their arts study with a middle school advisement class in a mini-unit, bringing the arts into more lives at DCIS. Finally they design a final project that demonstrates their answers to the questions they asked, and with the documentation of their lab time and thinking, and their final reflection, demonstrates their proficiencies in the standards they have selected and the GPS Performance Outcomes they hoped to display. The course is designed to be an example of anytime/anywhere learning; there are a few class meetings to craft the plan, share the progress and reflect on the results. It is similar to a Passage in that it is self-designed and self-selected, but students are guided by faculty and accountable for their time, whether in class meetings, individual lab time, internships and in middle school collaborations. Students who need the structure of scheduled lab hours will be provided with this support after a conference with their counselors.
Credit and Transcript Information
The course carries 5 Fine Arts elective credits towards DPS graduation. It also can, with some minor modifications, become a Senior or Honors Passage, if it is designed to meet the parameters of a Passage. Approval of the Inquiry Plan by the course instructor is required to pass the course; if it is a Passage, it will also require approval of the teacher and Passage Committee that reads and evaluates the Passage.
In addition, time working with middle school students in the art form can count as school service, attendance at relevant special events can count towards that DCIS requirement, and student can choose to build in a community service aspect.
The course will appear on the student's transcript as "DCIS Arts Inquiry (I-VIII)". Top of page, please
Course Logistics
Beginning September 7, students will attend 2-3 class sessions on Fridays in room 218 from 2:45-4:15 PM.. These classes are designed to introduce students to discipline-based arts education and help them design a viable study plan. They will explore questions of aesthetics that will drive their inquiry. After the plan is approved, students will begin research into their art form, and set up their internship hours, logging their learning in a journal. After mastering some methods and processes, students will complete practice studies to build skills. There will likely be another class session at this halfway point. They will schedule a collaboration with younger students and begin their final projects, logging those hours. There will then be final meeting to complete the reflect and critique of the project/performance.
Contact Info
Dr Susan Marion, Arts Director
Denver Center for International Studies
574 West 6th Ave.
Denver CO 80204
(720) 423-9004
Susan_Marion@dpsk12.org
Required Components
1. Four class meetings. (6 hrs.)
2. An approved Arts Inquiry Plan (see below--10 hrs.)
3. A 5-hour mini-internship with a practicing artist in your chosen art form (6 hrs; 1 hr. research/setup)
4. A 5-hour Middle School arts collaboration (6 hrs.; 1 hr. setup)
5. A journal/log of arts thinking and reflections, including exercises
6. A schedule of independent arts lab hours (40 hours)
7. A final Project/performance (4 hrs.) Top of page, please
Classes/Meetings; 2:45 -4:15 PM
Friday, September 7 : Intro, Arts Form, DBAE, Aesthetic Questions, Plan components
Friday, September 14: Arts History, Internship, live arts experiences, standards, academic vocabulary, GPS
Friday, October 19: Midterm: Arts Criticism, Final Project/Performance
Friday, December 7: Final: Arts Criticism, Aesthetic Questions revisited, reflection.
Your Arts Inquiry Plan
You will need a journal to plan, take notes, log experiences, reflect and develop parts of your total plan. This will be discussed in the first classes. Evidence of your success will be in the journal, in the forms required, the feedback collected, and in recorded and live artwork itself. Please see the checklist below. If you are doing your arts inquiry as a Passage, you will need to take the relevant items on the checklist and convert them into the form that fits your Passage requirements.
Materials/fees
---articles, readings, support documents supplied by teacher
---required: appropriate journal for art form, supplied by student
---other materials supplied by student
---storage supplied by school
---exhibition/peformance materials supplied by student
---small fee may be assessed for incidental materials and/or possible fieldtrips/events
218 Lab Times:
Green 02 (Wednesdays and Fridays, 8:30-10:00 AM
After School Mondays 3:30 -6:00 PM.
After School Thursdays 2:30-4:00 PM
After School Fridays 2:30-5 PM
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About the Course
Credit and Transcript Information
Course Logistics
Contact Information
Required Components
Classes/Meetings
Your Arts Inquiry Plan
Resources
Colorado State Arts Standards
Global Performance System Proficiencies
Materials
Lab Times
About the Course
DCIS Arts Inquiry I-VIII is a single semester individually-directed arts course that can be taken up to eight times during a student's high school career. It carries 5 Fine Arts elective credits towards graduation. Students choose an art form, craft a plan of study that meets state standards in their art form and the Global Performance System's Arts Framework proficiencies. They then select aesthetic questions to pursue, design research, a mini-internship with a practicing artist, and exercises that will help them achieve their goals. They plan to share and collaborate in their arts study with a middle school advisement class in a mini-unit, bringing the arts into more lives at DCIS. Finally they design a final project that demonstrates their answers to the questions they asked, and with the documentation of their lab time and thinking, and their final reflection, demonstrates their proficiencies in the standards they have selected and the GPS Performance Outcomes they hoped to display.
The course is designed to be an example of anytime/anywhere learning; there are a few class meetings to craft the plan, share the progress and reflect on the results. It is similar to a Passage in that it is self-designed and self-selected, but students are guided by faculty and accountable for their time, whether in class meetings, individual lab time, internships and in middle school collaborations. Students who need the structure of scheduled lab hours will be provided with this support after a conference with their counselors.
Credit and Transcript Information
The course carries 5 Fine Arts elective credits towards DPS graduation. It also can, with some minor modifications, become a Senior or Honors Passage, if it is designed to meet the parameters of a Passage. Approval of the Inquiry Plan by the course instructor is required to pass the course; if it is a Passage, it will also require approval of the teacher and Passage Committee that reads and evaluates the Passage.
In addition, time working with middle school students in the art form can count as school service, attendance at relevant special events can count towards that DCIS requirement, and student can choose to build in a community service aspect.
The course will appear on the student's transcript as "DCIS Arts Inquiry (I-VIII)".
Top of page, please
Course Logistics
Beginning September 7, students will attend 2-3 class sessions on Fridays in room 218 from 2:45-4:15 PM.. These classes are designed to introduce students to discipline-based arts education and help them design a viable study plan. They will explore questions of aesthetics that will drive their inquiry. After the plan is approved, students will begin research into their art form, and set up their internship hours, logging their learning in a journal. After mastering some methods and processes, students will complete practice studies to build skills. There will likely be another class session at this halfway point. They will schedule a collaboration with younger students and begin their final projects, logging those hours. There will then be final meeting to complete the reflect and critique of the project/performance.
Contact Info
Dr Susan Marion, Arts Director
Denver Center for International Studies
574 West 6th Ave.
Denver CO 80204
(720) 423-9004
Susan_Marion@dpsk12.org
Required Components
1. Four class meetings. (6 hrs.)
2. An approved Arts Inquiry Plan (see below--10 hrs.)
3. A 5-hour mini-internship with a practicing artist in your chosen art form (6 hrs; 1 hr. research/setup)
4. A 5-hour Middle School arts collaboration (6 hrs.; 1 hr. setup)
5. A journal/log of arts thinking and reflections, including exercises
6. A schedule of independent arts lab hours (40 hours)
7. A final Project/performance (4 hrs.)
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Classes/Meetings; 2:45 -4:15 PM
Friday, September 7 : Intro, Arts Form, DBAE, Aesthetic Questions, Plan components
Friday, September 14: Arts History, Internship, live arts experiences, standards, academic vocabulary, GPS
Friday, October 19: Midterm: Arts Criticism, Final Project/Performance
Friday, December 7: Final: Arts Criticism, Aesthetic Questions revisited, reflection.
Your Arts Inquiry Plan
You will need a journal to plan, take notes, log experiences, reflect and develop parts of your total plan. This will be discussed in the first classes. Evidence of your success will be in the journal, in the forms required, the feedback collected, and in recorded and live artwork itself. Please see the checklist below. If you are doing your arts inquiry as a Passage, you will need to take the relevant items on the checklist and convert them into the form that fits your Passage requirements.
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Resources
Arts Education Glossary
{to be posted}
Aesthetic Questions
Arts Internship Leads [TBA]
Colorado State Standards 9-12
---Visual Art
---Music
---Drama
---Dance
---Cinema/Media Arts
(see visual art and drama standards)
Global Competencies Curriculum Framework--Arts
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Materials/fees
---articles, readings, support documents supplied by teacher
---required: appropriate journal for art form, supplied by student
---other materials supplied by student
---storage supplied by school
---exhibition/peformance materials supplied by student
---small fee may be assessed for incidental materials and/or possible fieldtrips/events
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218 Lab Times:
Green 02 (Wednesdays and Fridays, 8:30-10:00 AM
After School Mondays 3:30 -6:00 PM.
After School Thursdays 2:30-4:00 PM
After School Fridays 2:30-5 PM
No Lab time in 218 on school holidays.